| Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Rachael | 4/13/11 11:25 AM | Hey analysts,I put together a post of the 15 things that have been bugging me about the new GA beta . Google was kind enough to respond to let us all know which issues are already being corrected and which are being escalated. Copied/pasted some in |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | AnalyticsPro.Aruna | 4/14/11 10:07 AM | Thanks a lot for posting this. Really appreciate your efforts to educate all our users. Cheers,Aruna.J |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Rachael | 4/18/11 11:05 AM | Thank you! You got a call out in the post, by the way :) I appreciate the time you've taken to go through everyone's feedback! |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Eduardo Cereto | 4/18/11 3:10 PM | Great work organizing these issues Rachaell, I see a lot of people complaining about this issues on the forum.Thanks, |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | mlb_2010 | 4/18/11 6:21 PM | Thank you. What about custom variables? Should they be working correctly? |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | iqpcanalytics | 4/19/11 7:16 AM | Awesome thanks for the info |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | xmestres | 4/19/11 10:04 AM | What about custom variables / event values autofill? There is a text field now. Will autofill dropdown be in the new version soon? Thanks! |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Engage.Digital | 4/20/11 4:01 AM | Thanks Rachel for organising. Its a big relief to hear those issued are being addressed. Also, add to the list (for any GA staffer who might be reading this) when making segmented comparisons in some reports - such as Goal URLs - and viewing in Perf |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | CLCI | 4/26/11 6:22 AM | Also, View This Link does not appear to be implemented at this point either.... a feature I really appreciated. |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | JamesSoYo | 4/28/11 6:44 AM | Thanks for the list Rachael. I might be being thick here (sorry) but when I create a custom report and drill down a level I can't get back to the overview. It feels like the breadcrumbs aren't working or something. For example, if I go to source/medi |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Nate S. | 5/5/11 8:54 AM | Awesome Rachaell. You've saved a lot of people a lot of time, I think. If this post could be updated periodically every few weeks, that would be even better. Nate |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Rachael | 5/5/11 9:30 AM | Nate, that's a good idea. I'll try to go through the list to update with everyone's feedback. I've found a number of additional things since posting, as well. Thanks! |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | prabhjot.singh111 | 5/6/11 10:37 PM | its very good and usefull |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | AMX2 | 5/8/11 8:46 PM | Great post, thanks.Another irritating thing I've noticed - it doesnt appear you can view todays data? when ever I try and see reports just covering the current days data it seems to flick back to an earlier time period? Whereas in the old version, i |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | Andriod Opps | 5/10/11 6:19 AM | You can't use PDF's an more or download the dashboard. I might want to create different dashboards for different criteria. |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | chaucerchris | 5/11/11 8:25 PM | Another useless piece of rubbish. You sign up to google Analytics and you're told to copy and past a snippet code into every page that you want to track. Problem. Google doesn't allow certain code to be used on your pages. After pasting the snippet c |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | jords12 | 6/1/11 5:29 PM | chaucerchris:if you cant figure out how to add some code to your page headers, you have no business running a website. You are the weak link here, not google. How is google supposed to track your site without you modifing it to ping google? Would you |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | roswellga | 6/1/11 8:11 PM | Thanks for this great post. Unfortunately, this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of discrepancies between Google Old and Google New. Did the product and/or project manager develop a feature set spreadsheet with GO, GN, GB (google old, google |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | himanshu raut | 6/12/11 10:53 PM | Thanks for the post.... |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | crinse | 6/13/11 3:01 AM | Hi, not sure if this is the right place to start/post this, but about the new GA interface: things I would like to see change/added (an the reasons why I still use the old interface) */ "Account Home" collapsed account overview: the old interface h |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | bhartiaabhishek | 6/16/11 1:45 AM | In custom reports under Context: select filters for your report i.e. when selecting filters there is an option of "AND" but not "OR". I want to use filters as "OR". How this can be done. |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | ericbrownaustin | 6/30/11 2:38 PM | Custom Reports are my biggest gripe with the beta. 1. The report preview function was removed in the beta. This causes me a great deal of pain as I like to create custom on a completely ad hoc basis and only save the reports that I feel I will use |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | newtech2011 | 7/7/11 9:22 AM | Hi Rachaell, Thanks for the info. Is the time series widget working for dashboard? I tried something real simple just now - trying to get # visits by time and nothing is showing up. However, other forms of chart - the pie chart or table works. Than |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | kcube | 7/11/11 11:18 AM | when i try to login a message appears "An illegal state has occurred. The request resulted in an inappropriate state. Reload the page to see whether the problem persists." |
| Re: Useful info for all GA Beta users on features that don't work yet | cj.cunniff | 7/13/11 8:39 PM | I may be missing something, but it appears that the $index column no longer shows up in the content reports if you have goals and values setup. Does anyone know if that is being addressed. Right now you can create custom reports to duplicate the co |
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